#Best video card for 2010 mac pro drivers#

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Start with 'AMD7000Controller.kext' and right click it. If you really and truly want to know what AMD GPUs are supported in a specific version of OSX, AMD and Apple have been kind enough to let you check. And there can be bugs in chips and ROMs that need to be changed, which again, is WHY you probably had to update the firmware on your Mac. It was 'new' when the IBM 360 though to have microcode, to not have to rewrite all new software with the new 360s. My SE/30 had 'dirty ROM' that was 24-bit and limited the amount of supported physical memory, so Sonnet came in and offered a patch to clean up and provide early SE/30 with a true 32-bit ROM for OS 6, OS 7.x probably patched t he OS to provide support for more than 8MB RAM.ĭrivers and patching firmware in the OS kernel or through software is always happening. So I don't think that arguement makes sense.

#Best video card for 2010 mac pro drivers#

Limiting users to a more limited selection of graphic cards is why people flash cards.īundling drivers wtih the OS and not making it easy or possible to use off the shelf parts and use a newer modern GPU wtih any Mac, with any OS version might seem wise to control and reduce problems and insure drivers, but Mac drivers and support have never equaled their PC or Windows breathern. All of my PCs now have UEFI motherboards, UEFI firmware and access to and replaced the old BIOS with a new graphical UEFI configuration screen. I do not see what having EFI only graphics has ever done or brought to the table to improve or make it important, it could be and you can have EFI do things. There are other forums that support how to, which card to look for etc. In most cases you use a program to save the old ROM first in case you need or want to go back to how it was. You probably had to update firmware already at some point for your motherboard on your Macs. It means replacing or adding to the ROM (read only memory) on a board.